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Introduction

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures.1 The healthy man is
strong, assertive, tolerant, moderate in his appetites, hard-working,
adventurous, responsible, and wise. The healthy woman is attractive, youthful-
looking, self-sacrificing, empathetic, consciously limiting her appetites,
hard-working, careful, mindful of the needs...

I: The Transmission of Health Information

Conﬁned: Constructions of Childbirth in Popular and Elite Medical Culture in Late-Nineteenth- Century Australia

In late-nineteenth-century Australia, a woman had numerous sources for
information about pregnancy and childbirth, including her family, friends,
and neighbours. Yet by this period, biomedicine and, in particular, gynecology
and obstetrics had increasingly replaced women’s...

Eating for Two: Shaping Mothers’ Figures and Babies’ Futures in Modern American Culture

Since the 1980s, American parenting magazines, pregnancy guidebooks,
and advertisements have admonished pregnant women to monitor their
food and drink. Pregnant women of the late twentieth century may suspect
that compared to the recommendations given to mothers in earlier decades
of the twentieth century, they have been expected to follow...

Many women born after 1940 in the United States hold vivid memories of
menstrual education during their teenage years. Some had mothers or
sisters to explain menstruation; others learned from their physical education
instructors. Most, though, were part of a nation-wide audience subjected to
menstrual education films shown at school...

Controlling Conception: Images of Women, Safety, Sexuality, and the Pill in the Sixties

All Aboard? Canadian Women’s Abortion Tourism, 1960–1980

Changing Places (1975), David Lodge’s witty satire of Anglo-American
academic life in the 1960s, begins with the startling discovery that Morris
Zapp, an esteemed American professor, is the sole male passenger on a
packed flight to London.When Zapp learns...

Controlling Cervical Cancer from Screening to Vaccinations: An American Perspective

In the United States, contemporary conversations about cervical cancer are
informed by a rich history of cancer awareness efforts that target female
audiences. Since at least 1913,women have been encouraged to consult physicians
at the first sign of irregular vaginal discharge...

The Challenge of Developing and Publicizing Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: A Canadian Perspective

Cervical cancer is one of the few cancers that with early detection, can have
a 100 per cent cure rate. By the mid-twentieth century, medical communities
in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom understood
cervical cancer as a potentially preventable disease, if properly organized
screening programs were in...

II: Popular Representations of the Body in Sickness and Health

Hideous Monsters before the Eye: Delirium tremens and Manhood in Antebellum Philadelphia

In Six Nights with theWashingtonians, temperance novelist T.S. Arthur uses
“the man with the poker” as a popular term for delirium tremens, a condition
in which heavy drinkers develop hallucinations. The fictional character,
Bill, a reformed drinker who is recounting...

From La Bambola to a Toronto Striptease: Drawing Out Public Consent to Gender Differentiation with Anatomical Material

The long history of anatomical display dates back at least from the classic
period when people left wax votives of afflicted body parts at Greek
and Roman temples, seeking divine intervention. However, a notable development
took place during the 1700s...

Let Me Hear Your Body Talk: Aerobics for Fat Women Only, 1981–1985

By 1984 aerobics, dancercise, and jazzercise were among “the most popular
physical activities of North American women.”1 Aerobics emerged
in the early 1980s in the wake of Title IX and the development of organizations
like the Canadian Association...

For the September 2002 issue of More, a women’s lifestyle magazine targeting
women over the age of forty, film actress Jamie Lee Curtis posed in
a sports bra and tight spandex briefs without the aid of lights, makeup, or
retouching...

“Every Generation Has Its War”: Representations of Gay Men with Aids and Their Parents in the United States, 1983–1993

When the AIDS activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power) staged street theatre-oriented protests in the late 1980s, one
of its iconographic Ronald Reagan posters asked the question: “What If Your
Son Gets Sick?”...

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